The 9-day Eid al-Fitr holiday had a negative impact on livestock and halal breeders who rushed in big numbers to the Citizen Service Center at the Public Authority for Agriculture and Fisheries to receive the subsidized fodder quota list to receive it from the Kuwaiti Flour Mills and Bakeries Company.
Citizens and/or their representatives stood in queue early morning hours to ensure that they received their quotas. However, more than 400 people, most of whom are elderly and retired, failed to get service in time and say the concerned authority must act to find solution, reports a local Arabic daily.
According to the citizens, the crowding was expected with the first working day in government departments, after some breeders ran out of fodder during the Eid holiday, noting that one of the negative aspects of any official holiday witnessed by the country is the accumulation of transactions, especially with regard to livestock breeders.
They stressed the importance of opening additional offices in areas where the departments of the Agriculture Authority are located, such as Wafra, Abdali, Kebd, Sulaibiya and others, during the next phase, with the aim of facilitating breeders in obtaining their shares of subsidized fodder without hindrances, and to eliminate scenes of crowding in Rabieh from time to time.
They pointed to the need to overcome obstacles in the way of livestock breeders by PAAAFR, in addition to eliminating the black market phenomenon of state-supported fodder and providing it to breeders at reasonable prices, with the aim of maintaining food security and developing livestock in the country, and by intensifying campaigns and organizing sudden raids centers that sell fodder on the black market in Wafra, Kabd and Jahra.
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